ONEHUNGA.
Billy and L. have quarrelled, so he is now about to join the 1.0.G-.T.
Ask D. about the half-crown, Mat, that the brunette offered him a few evenings ago. Take care, my boy, there may be a birch in store for you.
Archie says studying astronomy on a doorstep is a fitting recreation after dancing all night. Only beware, old fellow, that her old man doesn't catch you at it.
That clerk from Hokianga deserves mention for so generously engaging a man to carry a heavy portmanteau from the wharf to the Railway Station, and then giving him — sixpence. Last Sunday evening strolling en In the evening calm and still, I he%rd a minstrel sinp a song, Ju9t close by Norman's Hill, 1 It's nice to be a father ' were The words I seemed to hear : In H.s sweet-toned tenor voice The notes rang shrill and clear. ' A cradle now I'll have to buy, To rock my little pet, But for the p'rambulator There's plenty time as yet 5 But you can't tell how gay I feel Paternal feelings swell " (But d— n him there's the Obsebyeb man) I must my raptures quell.'
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 237, 28 March 1885, Page 10
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194ONEHUNGA. Observer, Volume 7, Issue 237, 28 March 1885, Page 10
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